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DownThemAll (2019)

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Re: DownThemAll (2019)

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post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's nice to see a finished piece of software.

Meanwhile, Youtube-DL is continuously being updated, because they have to work around obstacles raised by Google to prevent automatic downloading.

Actually, youtube-dl is dead at the moment for reasons of private life of the maintainer. So people now use a fork called yt-dlp. Which is ironic, because most people moved when google started to use a new harsh speed-limitation.

Re: DownThemAll (2019)

#42
post #40

Wow. Didn't expect this :) I was the author of this tiny extension back in the days (extension #201, I still remember it) together with a friend who recently passed away, Federico Parodi. We hacked the first version when we still didn't know much about JS, but it immediately exploded (500k daily users). Donations were super helpful at that time, being 22 years old with a newborn. After a couple of years (iirc) Nils M…

Thanks for making this. I remember downloading ROM's back in high-school. This made downloading way way easier.

Re: DownThemAll (2019)

#43
post #40

Wow. Didn't expect this :) I was the author of this tiny extension back in the days (extension #201, I still remember it) together with a friend who recently passed away, Federico Parodi. We hacked the first version when we still didn't know much about JS, but it immediately exploded (500k daily users). Donations were super helpful at that time, being 22 years old with a newborn. After a couple of years (iirc) Nils M…

Thank you very much for creating this extension, I used it a lot back in the day!

Re: DownThemAll (2019)

#44
I'll be the brave one to say it: download entire image-based porn sites in one click. Porn has gone almost entirely video now, so the days of galleries have largely disappeared. There were auto-indexers as well that would increment URLs based on patterns.

Re: DownThemAll (2019)

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post #40

Wow. Didn't expect this :) I was the author of this tiny extension back in the days (extension #201, I still remember it) together with a friend who recently passed away, Federico Parodi. We hacked the first version when we still didn't know much about JS, but it immediately exploded (500k daily users). Donations were super helpful at that time, being 22 years old with a newborn. After a couple of years (iirc) Nils M…

Thanks so much for making this. I used this back in the day to download (legally) mp3s from friends' pages.

Re: DownThemAll (2019)

#46
post #7

Woah, this gives me flashbacks. I remember using this to download files from shady websites on the school computers in the Firefox 3.5 era. These days, connections have become so fast that I don't really use a download manager anymore. The last place I download large files from through the browser is Mega, and its encryption is inherently incompatible with this addon.

Download Managers is still being used to this day. I have to use a download manager to download a 250MB file that capped the speed at 50KBps... And this is coming from a well-known but shitty printer company. So it took ages to down that and often it would failed. JDownloader2 took care of that since it can do multiple connection to do a quicker download.

If you need a download manager for MEGA, check into JDownloader2. They are compatible with MEGA en/decryption. And developers is very active.

Re: DownThemAll (2019)

#47
post #13

We are still talking about Download Manager in 2021. Something went wrong somewhere.

Yes, they are still useful. Download managers can download specific range of files that we are only interested in which it can be filtered out. Like youtube-dl and gallery-dl, they are a specialized download manager and did amazing job with it.

If I find a gallery of images that I like to keep. I can use gallery-dl for that and use gallery-dl "instagram.com/boburnham" in the command line and it will crawl and download the images within the gallery.

Re: DownThemAll (2019)

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post #13

We are still talking about Download Manager in 2021. Something went wrong somewhere.

It's not just a download manager! Imagine a page with 50 links, that you each have to download by hand? Nope! Just DTA and a filter to choose what you want. Photo gallery? Same! Open a bunch of stuff in different tabs, and want to download the same thing (eg. .zip file) from each open tab... DTA all tabs, and *.zip filter. Regex filter? Sure! The basic download manager part is just an extra feature, that you usually…

Still, one could reasonably expect that applying a functional pipeline to web page contents (extract and filter links, pipe them into the download queue) should be regular web browser functionality.

Re: DownThemAll (2019)

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IIRC when I couldn't use DTA anymore I used to take a local copy of a page, change 'a' tags to 'img' tags and 'href' to 'src', and then save web page complete. Got me a folder with the downloads in it. Rough and ready!

Re: DownThemAll (2019)

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There was nothing more frustrating than trying to download a file of a few megabytes back in the long, long ago, and then something would glitch out at 90%, and you'd have to start over again on your dial-up connection. Download managers that could resume an interrupted download were a game changer.

Modern browsers still suck at dealing with downloads if you have a flaky connection that gets interrupted, but we mostly don't care because you can slurp gigabytes in seconds on fiber connections, so it takes a really, really jacked up VPN connection or intrusive proxy to make an impact.

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